STONE AGE

STONE AGE

1. Is divided into three separate periods

   • The Paleolithic (2,500,000-10,000 BCE
     • The most important
   • Mesolithic (Europe, 10,000-4,000)
   • Neolithic (Europe, 4,000-2,000 BCE)
   • The term "Stone Age art" refers loosely to any works created during these three periods

2. characteristics

   • pictures and symbols
     • Bones, ivory, and clay
   • (parietal art)
   • Mobiliary art
   • Two fundamental ingredients of paint are pigment
     • coloured powder
     • binder (a liquid)
     • OPINION:The qualities of this Art , far from being limited to the stone age, characterized most of the world's traditional art. It is very important because the history of art begins with the evolution of humans, they made stone tools.

3. Painting and sculpture are the world's oldest art forms

4. Lacking in three-dimensional shadingl

5. The most famous collections of stone age painting

   • Altamira (Spain)
   • A 16,000 year old masterwork from the Lascaux cave in France)
   • This Bradshaw rock painting from Australia shows tasseled costumed figures in various poses or actions
   • Swimming Reindeer, a 13,000 year old mammoth-tusk sculpture now residing in the British Museum,
   • Chauvet Cave in France

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